Word: utters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Leavis' Richmond Lecture, delivered in the spring of 1962, is perhaps the least important of the three critiques. Though Leavis claims in his preface "no personal animus" against Snow, his criticism is too emotional, too insulting to be anything but a personal attack. "The Two Cultures exhibits an utter lack of distinction, and an embarrassing vulgarity of style...if his lecture has any value...it is a document for the study of cliche." Such statements are unmistakable in their tone, their emphasis, their unnecessary sharpness. They make interesting reading, but convince no one. His motives remain highly suspicious...
Thanks to TIME, millions of Americans both north and south of the Mason-Dixon line are beginning to realize the utter stupidity and un-Christian and antiquated thinking of those who for the past 100 years have done all in their power to keep the Negro in an invisible cage...
...demands the whole of man in every man. It seizes him and spirits him away into a dark cave; it envelops him in silence, in night. His inner eye begins to see, his secret ear begins to hear. Suddenly a vast mouth in the darkness opens and begins to utter visions. People. Cities. Rivers. Mountains. A whole world pours out of the mouth of the enraptured medium, and this world becomes the world of the man in the darkness watching...
...believing were expelled from the church. The British monk Pelagius, who died around 418, in effect contended that man could achieve salvation by his own actions apart from God's gift of grace; he was formidably countered by St. Augustine of Hippo, who emphasized the utter depravity of man and the absolute necessity of Christ's death at Calvary for redemption...
Ever since Karl Marx predicted that the Revolution would break out in industrially advanced Western Europe, while it actually came in backward, agricultural Russia, such contradictions have haunted Communism. Today, according to Marxist theory, capitalism should be in its death throes, the working class in utter misery, and the former colonial peoples well on the road to Communism. Instead, capitalism is thriving, Western workers are going middleclass, and the ex-colonies tend toward Socialism but hardly toward Communism. Nikita Khrushchev favors changing the theory to fit these facts more closely; he is, as Peking accurately charges, a revisionist...